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If I were to time travel back to 2004, I think one of my biggest ongoing difficulties would be remembering to always speak in the formal register (which hasn't changed much in 20 years) lest I accidentally reveal myself as being not from around here now by slipping back into my casual register (which is full of 2024 colloquialisms and internet slang).
Imagine saying to someone in 2004, "My spoonie friend posted that YouTube clip of House's 'Life is Pain' rant on her Facebook and I was like, 'That slaps. Mood.'"
That's a perfectly understandable statement to almost anyone who might be reading this on Tumblr in 2024, but would sound like schizophrenic word salad to 2004 ears.
Even if I were able to keep up constantly speaking in the formal register despite how exhausting and unnatural it would feel, I'd still have communication difficulties. IRL I rarely speak to anyone in the formal register anymore, even at work -- my last couple of jobs were in very laid-back environments where everyone else was at least a decade younger than me -- and I've noticed recently that when I force myself to switch to the formal register, I always sound pissed off even when I'm not.
It finally clicked that the reason I've lost the ability to emote appropriately while speaking in the formal register is that for the past few years, there's been only one context in which I consistently speak in the formal register every single time: Leaving angry voicemails for US Senators.
It cracks me up that somewhere in the language part of my brain, I've apparently got a bit of code running that "Senators = teh oldz" and therefore I must address them using a register that feels frozen in time. Not only was this not a conscious decision, but it's also so hard-coded that I instinctively switch to the formal register even while drunk-dialing their constituent feedback lines at 3am.
(Pro tip: If you have never drunk-dialed your Senator at 3am, you're not Americaning hard enough. Get to it, kiddies.)
Thinking about time travel has made me realize just how much colloquial English has changed over the past 20 years and how it keeps getting weirder and weirder at an accelerating rate. Speaking in code to route around censorship algorithms. New slang spreading within days instead of years. Horrible new suffixes. An emerging fourth person pronoun. It's wild.
I lived through these changes. I was already a grown adult back in 2004. And even I would have to carefully mind my speech in order to blend in and be understood. Can you imagine what would happen if you sent an extremely online Zoomer back 20 years?
#time travel problems#old lady ramblings#english#english language#english slang#language#linguistics#sociolinguistics#register#slang#internet slang#neologisms#algospeak
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You know, I've seen people talk about the problems with miraculous ladybug's time travel system (which is, admittedly, really messed up), but the point I haven't seen anyone elaborate on is the miraculous itself.
Or rather, the period of time from season one 'till time tagger where there were three copies of it. The one in the miracle box, the one with Bunnix in the pillar thing (is it an obelisk? I haven't seen the episode in ages), and the one with Alix.
See, how the show sets it up is that, Alix is given the one in the miracle box. Later in the future, that copy is damaged, and Bunnix winds up back in time. She then passes it down through her family, to recieve later when it's fixed (implied by the message on the watch during time tagger). See the problem?
Bunnix was transformed.
So where did Alix's copy come from?
Even if Bunnix went back to the future, then sent the miraculous back, there's still the question of where the extra miraculous came from. Because, sure, I can accept that there were two existing at the same time for a while. The one in the miracle box, and then one either with Bunnix, or being passed down through Alix's family.
But instead there's a strange duplicate. Was it stolen from the future? Or the past? Where did it come from?
Someone please don't tell me I'm crazy.
#miraculous#miraculous ladybug#mlb#ml#please I'm so confused#why are there three??#rabbit miraculous#time travel problems#miraculous has a weird time travel system
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So hear me out.
I've been thinking of time travel via going to different universes where timeflow is altered compared to ours, and thus came up with this concept:
Black line is world Black: A standard world with nothing weird there.
Red line is world Red: Same thing, but time flows backwards (right-to-left).
Then there's world Blue: A squiggly. Whenever it crosses itself or other worlds, let's say, a possibility of opening a portal between them is present.
Let's say we begin at some given moment. Right now, the present time is at the left end of the image. Thus the Red world goes back into the past of both Blue and Black worlds when we hit play.
Blue world has a possibility of time-travel at point A into itself, meaning you can go into the future right then, or into the past if you are already in the future.
Blue world then collides with the Black world, and thus whoever traveled there has no possibility to travel back until the next spiral of the Blue world's timeline comes around.
Approaching point E: there we can enter the Red world and later on exit it through point D due to the time flowing backwards here.
THEN we get to point B on the Black World - a safe place which upon entrance will allow you to travel back in time of the Blue world (or into the future if you are already in the past).
Safe routes within one loop of the spiral for the Red world are:
E->D.
Safe routes within one loop of the spiral for the Black world are:
C->B->A->C...
Safe routes within one loop of the spiral for the Blue world are:
E->B->A, E->B->C->E...
I think this stuff is really cool.
#worldbuilding#fantasy worldbuilding#fantasy#fantasy world#worldbuilding ideas#dnd#world creation#worldbuilder#names#time travel#timepunk#time travel fantasy#time traveling#time travel problems
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“What do you think could possibly happen if you meet him now? He’s not the leather clad, fifteen year old you fell for anymore.”
“I know. But I want to see him. And I wanna know what happened to him.”
#The Way Home#thewayhomeedit#elliot augustine#alice dhawan#time travel problems#His emphasis on No and Illegal cracks me up everytime#Girl. Listen to Elliot.#I get it. Nick is cute and sweet and you got swept up in the past... but this only ends in heartbreak for you.
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Physik, Physik, Phys-ik
You're one of my favourite books in this franchise, but you also keep me up at night.
Time travel, what is it with wizard books and time-travel?
Maybe it's just me but the Glasses of Time make no sense. Well they half make sense; you go through them to the Time of their activation, that bit makes sense, kind of, but what about getting back to your own Time. Does the Glass just know the time you come from? Is there some behind the scenes stuff we don't see with calibration? Am I overthinking a mechanic used in one book of a YA series?
And I know the standard explanation, 'A Wizard did it', well this time a Wizard did not do it, an Alchemist did.
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Scientists Explain the Vengaboys
A temporal physics lecture by Cheeky Moon
Transcript:
Alastair: “Boom boom. Boom boom.”
Claire: The heartbeat of a generation.
A: We all know the Vengaboys for their humanitarian work and their geopolitical influence. So it’s sometimes easy to forget that they began as lively pop musicians.
C: 1998 was… a difficult time, for those of us who still remember. In that bleak, post-Diana, post-Seinfeld world, there was a certain void that needed filling. A certain absence of meaning. Our hearts... they longed to sing again. And then suddenly, out of the blue…
Cue music sample:
Boom boom boom boom!
I want you in my room
Let’s spend the night together
From now until forever
A: “Let’s spend the night together… from now until forever.” How can all of eternity take place in a single night, in a single room?
C: Over the course of this 12-part non-refundable seminar, we’ll be examining just how the Vengaboys’ Milli Vanillian verse fits in with our current understanding of temporal physics.
A: Ladies and gentlemen, we bring you: The Vengaboy Paradox.
A: Einstein theorised that time is relative. It can pass for each and every one of us at different speeds. Let’s say, for instance, that this room were travelling a million miles a minute. One night could pass in this room, but many years would pass to those in the outside world. This is, of course, highly improbable. Unless this room were on board the... The Vengabus.
CC: Indeed, to find the answer, we can’t just look at one song. We must factor in the broader picture the Vengaboys have been delicately brush-stroking throughout their two-album contract deal.
Cue music sample:
The Vengabus is coming
And everybody's jumping
New York to San Francisco
An intercity disco
The wheels of steel are turning
And traffic lights are burning
A: “The traffic lights are burning.” The thermonuclear consequences of burning traffic lights imply astonishing speeds - far beyond those of any other pop artist recorded on the Sanity Top Ten Singles Chart. Even S Club 7, another musical group well known for their non-stop parties.
Cue music sample:
Don't stop movin'
Can you feel the music
DJ's got us goin' around (round)
A: Let’s assume the S-Club party commences a-groovin while the Vengabus begins a-movin’.
C: By the time the Vengabus reaches its itinerant destination of San Francisco, a single night will have passed for its occupants. However, at traffic-light-burning speeds, let’s assume the party bus has circumnavigated the globe 70 million times. Long enough for these beautiful, dewy skinned-dancers and DJs to wind down their S Club Party and age into obscurity.
A: Indeed, to an S-Club member’s fading mortal eyesight, this party in motion will have simply vanished. One moment it’s there, now it’s gone. This unit of measurement is known to those of us in the field as an Mmmbop.
Cue music sample:
In an mmmbop they're gone
In an mmmbop they're not there
C: And so, the eternal Vengabus party may very well span the life of an S Clubber such as Rachel, once body-rocking, now hobbling on a replacement hip.
A: Or Bradley, once jiggy with it on the d-floor, now unable to pull himself up.
C: Or Jo, who had the flow, but now just shakes her head and wonders what it was all for. The party must end for us all.
A: And yet… one must hope that the Vengabus’s wheels of steel are turning still, transporting a star selection of loose people cross country, teaching us always that time is what we make it.
C: And that one sweet day, it will take us all away into that sweet, eternal night.
#vengaboys#the vengabus#Boom Boom Boom Boom#mmmbop#s club 7#s club#temporal physics#time travel#time travel problems#lightspeed travel#90s pop#brisbane comedy#live comedy
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Love a self-inflicted time loop. The main character isn’t trapped. They can stop whenever they want. But how can they when things aren’t perfect yet? They can do better than this. They need to try again. They can get it right this time. They just need to try again. They can stop anytime they want. Just one more time. They can fix this. They just need to try again. There are still things to fix. They just need to try again.
#time travel#its about the tunnel vision#its about losing sight of what a win condition even looks like#its about writing off the entire timeline at the slightest inconvenience#its about increasing alienation#its about failing to notice that youre destroying yourself and in some cases making things worse#its about the atrophy of your own problem solving skills#its about treating your friends like unskippable cutscenes#its about gradually forgetting everything outside the loop#its about the fact that you arent even really trapped#its about making the same choice over and over again#its about falling hard into the sunk cost fallacy
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I made a video about the time travel problem with Avengers: End Game. Generally, if Ironman snapped all the bad guys away in 2023 then how did the move even happen?
#time travel#avengers endgame#the avengers#mcu#marvel#frank james bailey#time travel problems#time paradox#Youtube
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just bestfriend things
#everyone hates them but everyone wants to BE them#it girls of their gen#original shang qinghua#original shen qingqiu#idk maybe this is a time travel au and theyre drinking their problems away rn#maybe#maybe theyre one second away from a breakdown over how the fate of the world rests on their shoulders#yknow#the world that continually gives them the finger#svsss#mxtx
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#vashwood#vash the stampede#nicholas d wolfwood#trigun#trigun maximum#tw blood#im posting this so late because october escaped me Suddenly.. hello....#i wanted to make it a photoset with this other vampire vw wip but i don't think i'm finishing it any time soon and the mood of it is#completely different anyway. also i don't think i ever shared anything about my vampire au on here !!! it's all old art by now so im shy lo#but maybe i'll do a photodump of it. long story short vash is a vampire since birth and ww is a human vampire hunter that turns during thei#travels together due to EoM experiments + getting vash to drink from him at some point.#humans turn once they get bitten but bc ww has been experimented on#& got bitten by a bunch of human turned vampires thruout his hunts he thought it wouldn't be a problem for vash to drink from him but alas.#theyre both ok though theyre traveling together definitely not hating themselves for what theyve become and feeling guilty for what theyve#done to each other. theyre completely normal about it. the biting part is really appealing to me in vampire aus so i draw it a lot but#in reality vash only drank from ww once and ww mightve done it twice under the realization he might actually die otherwise#since he wont drink from humans after being turned.... he's combatting the 5 stages of grief at all times#if this is all nonsense im sorry DMGKSDF I'M NOT good at explaining and this au came from nowhere in the depths of my mind its a mess#ruporas art
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Just considering the potential horrific deaths the JL may have suffered under someone who has intangibility in their power list
Like! There’s a general agreement that Dan eviserated the JL [The magic users probably lasting longer] in his timeline but I don’t think we touched on the horrifying potential.
We are all perfectly aware of the gory violent potential Dan is capable of [*Eyeing the unspoken murder/suicide of his human half and how that might have gone*].
If he can kill off his Fenton half [and inflict whatever misery he might have gleefully put Masters through] without a thought, what do you think he would do to the caped community?
Especially if you go the “JL ignored Amity Parks’ call for help” route
Also: It wouldn’t have been a long ongoing battle. This dude would probably disappear from days to weeks at a time [Either rejuvenating in the Ghost Zone or making himself the ghost’ problem]. The heroes would be on edge just waiting for when he’d come back
Ten years of being this unkillable thing’s punching bag
Don’t mind me, just suddenly vying for a violently gruesome fic of Dan against the Justice League.
A hopeless-No light in the horizon-utter desperation fic
#DPxDC#DCxDP#dp x dc crossover#how desperate do you think they were?#Dan probably went out of his way to destroy anything that could have been used against him#He has the combined smarts for it#like! He probably started out as a horrific rumor for the JL before he decided to make his debut#do you think the teen heroes had the misfortune of meeting him first???#or did he spend the remainder of his adolescence in the GZ and Amity shaping himself into a bigger problem#and then there’s the fact Fright Knight was working for him#That timeline was probably a place of nightmares#the closest we came to touching that subject is through the mention of future time travelers#danny phantom#justice league
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One of the more interesting time-travel-related wrinkles I've been thinking about a lot for my House MD isekai fanfic is about how both House and the author self-insert OC will be 45 years old, but House is a Boomer and my OC is a time-travelling Xennial / geriatric Millennial. (While most demographers would place me in Gen X, culturally I've always been much closer to Millennials -- being raised by a software engineer meant I've always had a home computer, and have been on the internet since I was 12 -- and I'll be writing my OC like that too.)
So there's going to be a weird dynamic where they'll have all the usual Boomer/Millennial generation gap issues despite being the exact same age. That's going to be a lot of fun to write (my OC will be introducing the phrase "okay boomer" to the team's toolkit for dealing with House's microaggressions), especially when the slow burn starts heating up.
Boomers were the last generation to be raised with the norms "you HAVE to get married" and "it's normal to hate your spouse" and thus they tend have a lot of really awful beliefs about love, romantic relationships, marriage, etc. that younger generations find super weird and sad. You can track this generational attitude change pretty closely in comedy and television. "I hate my wife" jokes used to be a staple for stand-up comedians, but you almost never hear them anymore because modern audiences don't find them relatable or funny. The "spouses who hate each other" trope used to be incredibly common in sitcoms, but now you usually only see it in dramas where everyone is awful anyway. Even cop shows and other murder mysteries are having fewer and fewer "the spouse did it" culprits.
House's cynicism about love and marriage is pretty typical for his generation. For a guy who prides himself on rejecting social programming, he actually absorbed almost all the standard Boomer norms about marriage except the very last one -- he believes, like most Boomers, that marriage is awful, it is normal to hate your spouse, etc., and his only deviation from the norm is deciding "well then I just won't get married."
My OC pointing out that it's possible to simply... marry someone you actually like... might be the first time he really hears and absorbs something like that coming from someone whom he can't just write off as young, naive, inexperienced, etc. I'm happily married IRL and my OC will have been happily married back in her own timeline, too. (One of the reasons the slow burn will be so slow is that she'll be grieving her husband for a while.) So she actually objectively knows more about it than he does and will not hesitate to rub that in his face.
It won't be enough to completely change his views (the Boomer brainwashing is strong), but he'll be slightly less resentful about it when the two of them have to get married to avoid being forced to testify against each other in court.
(House and my OC are going to commit SO MANY CRIMES, you guys. One of the ways I'm working through the "this kinda feels like cheating" discomfort of being happily married IRL but shipping my author self-insert OC with another man is by making my story a bit of a cautionary tale about what I might get up to without my IRL husband's good influence and constant admonishments of "no murder!" My OC is going to commit AT LEAST three murders in her efforts to change the timeline.)
#house#house md#hatecrimes md#hate crimes md#boomers#millennials#generation gap#time travel problems#writing fanfiction
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Prompt in Memes 6
Let's make it some in-world memes this time :)
#prompts#memes#meme#cryptid batman#cryptid batfam#cryptid batfamily#battinson#They somehow travel back in time & makes it everyone elses problem#They do not communicate with anyone else besides each other lol#give battinson a robin#but it's time travel and he has all of the robins at once#except Damian but they're going to grab him the moment he exists#Jason: wait does this mean I still have my all-blades#bruce is a good dad#but also so very done with his kids but in a of love and exasperation way#8 year old Dick & 5 year old Jason & 3 year old Tim showing up at the manor: B let us in it cold out here#3 year old Steph kicking down the door: Hope u missed my presence#5 year old Cass crawling in through the window: :) hello family#The kids: Wow Bruce u wear makeup that heavy that's funny lol#But can u imagine battinson with several tiny children following like ducklings#They're perfectly behaved in public but go back to being their lil shit selves when they get home#Gotham: aw the Waynes are like lil angels#Also Gotham: Oh my gosh did you SEE Robin Bite that poor person I hope they don't also turn into an undead cryptid
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in which jedi master luke travels through time and meets his padawan father and gives him a speech. Unknowingly influencing the young jedi's future decisions.
also here what i would have wrote too if i had the energy to do two more pages:
Luke: I sense the same darkness in you. Your anger towards the Jedi order, the ones who hurt your mother. And most importantly towards yourself. But I also sense the light—that same conflict. Your compassion and your love. The force will always guide you. It will show you the right path. You just have to listen to it and more importantly trust it.
#i cross my fingers and hope that yall can actually read my handwriting#also they dont look at all like mark or hayden but it is what it is#i didn't really use much references so that might be the problem#also like obsessed with time travel aus they bring me so much comfort#luke skywalker#anakin skywalker#star wars#myart
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#not lmk related#dnd#dungeons and dragons#DND NPC#firegiant#fire jotunn#Unn#I am a dm for a few games with my friends. This is my NPC that travels with the party#He started off so well#now somehow he is the problem character#my sweet boi please stop burning down every obstacle I put in front of my players#they're even instigating it#I roll for him at times#will he burn down this village to solve a problem?#yes#apparently#he will#gosh darn it#art
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Took time to make the daughter look even more celestial. I’m not going to explain my reasoning on this, but it took three weeks to complete. Enjoy.
#star wars#fanart#star wars fanart#anakin skywaller#anakin art#the daughter#time travel#alternate universe#knightfall Anakin#my artwork#art#artists on tumblr#Very close to developing a attitude problem. I observe others. I learn about them#. Im not human. Im something else.
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